IPC Main Group
D06B 23/00 Component parts, details, or accessories of apparatus or machines, specially adapted for the treating of textile materials, not restricted to a particular kind of apparatus, provided for in groups
Introduced: July 1974
Last revised: January 2006
Classification Context
- Section:
- TEXTILES; PAPER
- Class:
- TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- Subclass:
- TREATING TEXTILE MATERIALS USING LIQUIDS, GASES OR VAPOURS
Filing statistics
IPC D06B 23/00 belongs to the parent subclass D06B, which recorded 67,125 patent applications worldwide between 2013 and 2023. Annual filings grew from 2,102 in 2013 to 7,845 in 2023 (+273%), peaking at 10,942 applications in 2020. The most active applicants in class D06 are QINGDAO HAIER WASHING MACHINE COMPANY (10,520 applications), HAIER SMART HOME (8,532 applications) and LG ELECTRONICS (7,853 applications).
Source: EPO PATSTAT, worldwide filings
10 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
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- D06B 23/02 Rollers
- D06B 23/04 Carriers or supports for textile materials to be treated
- D06B 23/06 Guiding means for preventing filaments, yarns, or threads from sticking together
- D06B 23/08 Untwisting devices
- D06B 23/1 Devices for dyeing samples
- D06B 23/12 Means for taking samples from textile materials during or after treatment
- D06B 23/14 Containers, e.g. vats
- D06B 23/2 Arrangements of apparatus for treating processing-liquids, -gases or -vapours, e.g. purification, filtration or distillation
- D06B 23/24 Means for regulating the amount of treating material picked up by the textile material during its treatment
- D06B 23/3 Means for cleaning apparatus or machines, or parts thereof
Top Applicants
Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class D06, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- QINGDAO HAIER WASHING MACHINE COMPANY 10,520
- HAIER SMART HOME 8,532
- LG ELECTRONICS KR 7,853
- WUXI LITTLE SWAN COMPANY 5,749
- QINGDAO HAIER WASHING MACHINE COMPANY CN 2,905
- BSH (BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUSGERAETE) DE 2,785
- SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 2,662
- GREE ELECTRIC APPLIANCES 1,701
- PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 1,391
- MIELE DE 1,374